My mum and family would not be able to keep going without the help of the local hospice, Sobell House: Sobell House website

I thought previously, like many of us may do, that hospices were places of doom and gloom where people go to die. Whilst it is true for some patients that they will die in a hospice, the majority of patients go for respite care for various illnesses.

Sobell House, as with all hospices, also provide care outside the actual building.

I have been amazed at how they regularly visit my mum at home to see how she’s doing. They have provided her, free of charge, with mobility aids and equipment, given financial advice, sorted out grants and just listened as my mum and family shared their griefs and pain.

ALL THIS CARE HAS BEEN FOR FREE.

Not a single penny has been asked for from my family.

Hospices rely upon donations. They cannot work without them.

I Need Your Help

Run Forrest! Oh, you’re walking. Awkward.

I know your eyes may be rolling now. Here we go, another plea for money. It’s January and I’m skint. She can do one.

That is of course, your prerogative (I only used that phrase so I could ear worm you with Bobby Brown’s ‘My Prerogative’ by the way). You don’t owe me or Sobell House anything.

I could tug on your heart strings and make you feel guilty about how I slave over a hot laptop, writing you wonderful blog posts every week *cough* but that’s not my style. Oh, I already did…

I could also mention that it’s my mum’s birthday on 10th January and this would be a fab present but that would make me a cunning little so-and-so, eh?

Joking aside, I just ask you to consider, as a way to help this bloody marvellous hospice, sponsoring my brother in a four mile walk he will be undertaking for them on Sunday 15th January.

It’s flipping chilly in the UK at the moment so if you couldn’t care less about hospices at least consider sponsoring him for manning up and going out into the freezing cold.